Free Terrorism Essays: We Must Oppose Peaceniks :: September 11 Terrorism Essays

We Must Oppose Peaceniks   There is a trustworthy segment of the population on any contemporary college campus that is never well-to-do unless it is dissatisfied. So addicted is this small minority to the rush unmatchable receives from guiltless indignation that, after centuries of moral progress in what is by instantly a coitionly just society, their lives are reduced to a dire search for sufficiently eye-catching evils to combat. Sweatshops one year, the low wages of University workers the conterminous - while collegiate activism addicts often find themselves fighting real and go along injustices, their brief battles are mere momentary fads, reduced to being the policy-making equivalent of bellbottoms or boy bands.   In the middle of the 2001 fall way season, however - a season which was supposed to bring with it both shorter hemlines and regenerate opposition to the IMF - Americans witnessed evil in its purest and most dramatic form. Here, finally, was a subs tantial need for immediate action. Habitual activists thus joined their fellow students in giving blood and helping to organize aid for the victims of the tragedy, and I gesticulate them for their good work.   Horrified at for once being part of a moral volume, however, this coterie soon found that the relief effort was wanting(p) to satisfy its old addiction. A real jolt of righteous indignation, it seems, comes however from a stance directly opposed to that of the American mainstream, or, as they resembling to call it, the capitalist hegemony. The movementarians needed to find a new, less familiar movement for themselves, and sure enough one was to be found with relative ease - a late 60s classic that never goes out of style, one by the name of peace.   Generally speaking, I too am in favor of peace. (For the record, Im generally well to the left of Joe Lieberman.) Not only would I take a articulate of peace over a state of war any day, I am also opposed to such military tactics as the invasion of randomly selected developing nations or the wholesale slaughter of their innocent civilians. Except for those with a religiously grounded commitment to absolute pacifism, however, we can all agree that there are propagation when certain acts of war are both appropriate and just. The vast majority of the American people believe that now is one of those times, and they are right to do so.